Gilbert Cates

Nascimento : 1934-06-06, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 2011-10-31

História

Gilbert “Gil” Cates (born June 6, 1934) is an American film director and television producer. He is probably best known for producing the annual Academy Award shows. In September 2007, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that he would be producing the 80th Academy Awards, his 14th time. The awards took place on Sunday February 24, 2008. Cates directed a number of feature films including I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), Oh, God! Book II (1980) and The Last Married Couple in America (1980). Cates was born Gilbert Katz in New York City, the son of Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturer. There he attended DeWitt Clinton High School. He is the uncle of noted actress Phoebe Cates and a brother of the producer and director Joseph Cates, with whom he collaborated from time to time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilbert  Cates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

A Death in the Family
Director
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
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Mr. Walsh
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.
Innocent Victims
Director
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
Director
Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying. Crime drama, starring James Earl Jones and Jason Bateman.
In My Daughter's Name
Executive Producer
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Absolute Strangers
Executive Producer
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Absolute Strangers
Director
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Call Me Anna
Director
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Director
Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.
My First Love
Director
A widow thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 37-year-old girlfriend.
Fatal Judgement
Director
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.
Backfire
Director
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
Child's Cry
Director
A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.
Consenting Adult
Director
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
Burning Rage
Director
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Director
A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rudely invades the home of a family of bears, taking advantage of all its comforts and thoughtlessly wrecking things. When caught, she learns important lessons about truthfulness and respecting others' rights to privacy.
Hobson's Choice
Director
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
Rapunzel
Director
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch locks her up in a tall tower all alone, with no way in or out except by climbing her long, braided hair. Wonders and dangers occur when the girl meets a handsome prince.
Country Gold
Supervising Producer
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.
Country Gold
Director
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.
A Menina Que Viu Deus
Director
Apesar de ter críticas sobre o comportamento dos humanos, Deus (George Burns) resolve voltar à Terra para tentar mais uma vez melhorar as coisas. Como seu mensageiro utiliza Tracy Richards (Louanne), uma garotinha de 11 anos que é filha de pais separados. Sua mãe, Paula (Suzanne Pleshette), é uma corretora de imóveis e seu pai, Don (David Birney), trabalha com propaganda. Após Tracy estar convencida que quem lhe procurou é mesmo Deus, ela conversa com o pai pedindo orientações de como fazer uma campanha publicitária. Após algumas tentativas, o Todo Poderoso aprova o slogan "Pense Deus" e logo vários colegas de Tracy a ajudam a divulgá-lo em todos os lugares. Porém quando ela diz que fala com Deus alguns psiquiatras acham que ela precisa ir para uma instituição.
O Último Casal Casado
Executive Producer
Os amigos de Jeff e Mari estão todos se divorciando. Sabendo disso, eles passam a questionar o próprio relacionamento. Jeff começa um caso com outra mulher e Mari decide também ter outras experiências.
O Último Casal Casado
Director
Os amigos de Jeff e Mari estão todos se divorciando. Sabendo disso, eles passam a questionar o próprio relacionamento. Jeff começa um caso com outra mulher e Mari decide também ter outras experiências.
Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
Executive Producer
Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.
O Segredo de Uma Promessa
Director
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Executive Producer
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday along the way.
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Director
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
Dragonfly
Producer
A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
Dragonfly
Director
A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
After the Fall
Producer
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
After the Fall
Director
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
The Affair
Director
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Producer
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Director
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
To All My Friends On Shore
Director
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
Meu Pai Um Estranho
Producer
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Meu Pai Um Estranho
Director
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Rings Around the World
Producer
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.
Rings Around the World
Director
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.